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[5/5] x86: add DB flag to 32-bit percpu GDT entry

Message ID 20231219151200.2878271-6-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
State New
Headers
Series replace magic numbers in GDT descriptors |

Commit Message

Vegard Nossum Dec. 19, 2023, 3:12 p.m. UTC 
  The D/B size flag for the 32-bit percpu GDT entry was not set.

The Intel manual (vol 3, section 3.4.5) only specifies the meaning of
this flag for three cases:

1) code segments used for %cs -- doesn't apply here
2) stack segments used for %ss -- doesn't apply
3) expand-down data segments -- but we don't have the expand-down flag
   set, so it also doesn't apply here

The flag likely doesn't do anything here, although the manual does also
say: "This flag should always be set to 1 for 32-bit code and data
segments [...]" so we should probably do it anyway.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wib5XLebuEra7y2YH96wxdk=8vJnA8XoVq0FExpzVvN=Q@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
index f2583de97a64..b30d6e180df7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@  void __init pcpu_populate_pte(unsigned long addr)
 static inline void setup_percpu_segment(int cpu)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-	struct desc_struct d = GDT_ENTRY_INIT(DESC_DATA32 & ~_DESC_DB,
+	struct desc_struct d = GDT_ENTRY_INIT(DESC_DATA32,
 					      per_cpu_offset(cpu), 0xFFFFF);
 
 	write_gdt_entry(get_cpu_gdt_rw(cpu), GDT_ENTRY_PERCPU, &d, DESCTYPE_S);